Having been exploring the nature of faith and belief this past year with the hope explaining how my views have shifted on the matter over the last several years, in this post I’d like to offer some final thoughts of Read More …
In my last post I touched a bit on how my views on the nature of belief have shifted over the past several years, giving particular attention to how I have come to see the relationship between my beliefs and Read More …
Given everything I’ve explored thus far and the recurring theme of my previous struggles with belief that lay behind it all, some may be wondering, “why is/was it so difficult for you to believe certain tenets of your faith?” This Read More …
A few posts back I outlined the view of faith I held for many years and later struggled with, a view that understood faith primarily in terms of belief – where belief was primarily understood in terms of thinking some Read More …
Having previously highlighted the view of faith I held for many years and which in many ways contributed to my eventual crisis of faith (i.e. faith as belief) – as well as two alternative ways of seeing faith which I Read More …
In my last post I began exploring some other ways of seeing faith (aside from seeing faith as belief) which were not only instrumental in helping me through my own crisis of faith, but which have radically impacted how I Read More …
Having up to this point been focused primarily on how I used to see the nature of faith (i.e. as emphasizing “believing the right things”), as well as on some of the things I learned about that way of seeing Read More …
In my last post I briefly outlined two prominent historical events (the Reformation and the Enlightenment) which, as I came to discover, had a rather significant impact on how the nature of faith has come to be understood ever since. Read More …
Although I’ve already highlighted in previous posts some of the key features of the view I once held when it comes to the nature of faith, in this post I’d like to unpack things a bit more, giving particular attention Read More …
As I’ve mentioned a few times already in some of my previous posts, although there were several areas I once struggled with and which eventually led up to my crisis of faith, the one area that I struggled with more Read More …
In my last post I touched on the vast amount of diversity within the Christian tradition that I came to discover (something I hope to describe in more detail later on), and how that led me to realize that much Read More …
Having given a bit of background on how I used to see things before my subsequent crisis of faith, as well as an overview of the two particular areas that I came to struggle with the most (the nature of Read More …
Having given a bit of background and overview in my last two posts on some of my prior beliefs about the nature of the Bible (beliefs that later served as one of the two major areas of struggle for me Read More …
In my last post I outlined how growing up I had come to view the Bible as more or less a divine product that carried divine authority and a divine guarantee to be true (a view that I not only Read More …
As I mentioned in my last post, before diving too deep into exploring the two major areas of struggle along my journey thus far (the nature of the Bible and the nature of faith), what I’d like to do first Read More …
With a new year already upon us, I’ve finally decided to bite the bullet and go through with something that has been on my mind for quite awhile now – namely, start a blog! For a bit of background, this Read More …